But then you have the guy who's in charge of vacuuming water out of the aircraft tie down. So on the flight deck , there's these little divots. And that's where you tie the aircraft down into.
That's interesting. So we race back, land on the aircraft carrier, and before the last jet had even gotten tied down or parked, the entire flight deck heaved. And we turned and pushed west at full power.
So just basic life things like that, I would go fight these battles, because they're working 12-hour shifts on the flight deck , where it is also 120 degrees on the flight deck . And so to get a little bit of respite from that type of physical strain, they had to get water.
um when you've done as much work with veterans and and seen active duty people as I have when you've been on an aircraft carrier and see a bunch of 19y olds running a flight deck which is incredibly hazardous you realize they're the best people you could have hired and in the episode you're talking about a Blue Bloods was dealing with the fact
I just felt like all the junior officers in that squadron can count on him. When we had bad landings or did something stupid on the flight deck , the officer who's in charge of all that is called the air boss, and he sits up there in the tower and is watching over everything happening on the deck.
That job is critically important to the success of the aircraft carrier and the success of our mission, because if that water doesn't get vacuumed out, then it rusts. And there's a hole in the flight deck , and we can't take off or land. And so for me, realizing that team, what it took to be able to execute these missions and to be successful at our jobs,
So just their basic needs. At one point their shop, which is their office that they keep all their supplies in and go to take breaks from the flight deck , it was 120 degrees inside, because somebody was siphoning off their air conditioning.
because somebody was siphoning off their air conditioning. So just basic life things like that, I would go fight these battles, because they're working 12-hour shifts on the flight deck , where it is also 120 degrees on the flight deck .
Let's go through the list. I love it. Were they all different heights are the same like-- No, the flight deck that we jump from, the sky ranch is 14,500.
And originally the sort of assignment from ONR was make this thing fully autonomous with absolutely minimal dependence on a pilot or a human operator. Same thing, you asked airline pilots to say, have you ever asked of your flight deck automation, "What's it doing now?" Every one of them will say, yes, I've had that experience.
seat of the house 'cause it's the panoramic view is what I call it as we take off into space. The Mission Specialist Number One is to my right and then, so that's four of us on the flight deck . And then on the mid-deck you'll-you'll see we'll have three astronauts there. Those are usually our space walkers 'cause they don't have any responsibilities during our ascent